Every day at dawn the cell makes its fingers, filled with chloroplasts like the leaves of a tree. Every evening the fingers are absorbed and the cell swims more quickly- perhaps making it harder to be caught and eaten.

Three individuals of what is now known as Cyttarocylis ampulla all from the same sample taken during the Tara Oceans expedition (Station 70, West Coast of Africa).

Date : 19/07/2013

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Formerly known as Petalotricha ampulla

Date : 09/04/2009

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Cyttarocylis cassis

Date : 26/10/2010

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Cyttarocylis ampulla formerly known as Cyttarocylis casseis

From Station 70 of the Tara Oceans Expedition

Date : 04/01/2013

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Petalotricha ampulla "lift-off"

Date : 17/08/2009

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Cyttarocylis ampulla types from Pt B

Different individuals in samples from the Bay of Villefranche, November 15 & December 02 2013.

Date : 16/12/2013

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Cyttarocylis ampulla: the brandti morph

Cyttarocylis brandti morph of Cyttarocylis ampulla from the South Pacific, Tara Oceans Expedition station 111. The specimen has the lorica structure of the C. brandti morph but also the rounded shape of the C. eucecryphalus morph.

Date : 01/02/2014

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Cyttarocylis types from a single sample

Specimens from a sample taken on Feb 3rd 2014 at Point B Rade de Villefranche.